I meant JEZ was one of a few exceptions who make social comment songs popular.
3. Increase in festival run by entrepreneurs who are trying to make money, being more commercial then alters the direction of choice of music, result less trad material and less politcal social comment songs, more material that will not challenge the establishment, or acceptable to those used to pop music diet, so a directional change towards more pop sounding music or more commercial mainstream, taking the music further from its roots, in an attempt to make money for the entrepreneur under the guise of bringing more people to hear folk music, so the direction of the folk revival gets changed to some extent by commercialism.
perhaps it does bring more people?
but if commercilism is taken too far are the roots still there in sufficient quantity for people to hear.
That is why i think EFDSS should be running a tradtional festival of song and dance, whose aim should be protection and promotion of tradtional dance and song, any profits made go back to either running the next years festival or the EFDSS to be used for other folk projects